Cine s-a întâlnit cu Simone de Beauvoir?

Simone de Beauvoir (; n. 9 ianuarie 1908, Paris, Franța – d. 14 aprilie 1986, Paris, Franța)a fost o eseistă, scriitoare (premiată cu Premiul Goncourt 1954), și în același timp o figură de marcă a existențialismului și a feminismului în Franța, militantă a mișcării intelectuale contestatare de după al Doilea Război Mondial.

Nelson Algren (born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham; March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name.

Algren articulated the world of "drunks, pimps, prostitutes, freaks, drug addicts, prize fighters, corrupt politicians, and hoodlums". Art Shay singled out a poem Algren wrote from the perspective of a "halfy," street slang for a legless man on wheels. Shay said that Algren considered this poem to be a key to everything he had ever written. The protagonist talks about "how forty wheels rolled over his legs and how he was ready to strap up and give death a wrestle."

According to Harold Augenbraum, "in the late 1940s and early 1950s he was one of the best known literary writers in America." A lover of French writer Simone de Beauvoir, he is featured in her novel The Mandarins, set in Paris and Chicago. He was called "a sort of bard of the down-and-outer" based on this book, but also on his short stories in The Neon Wilderness (1947) and his novel A Walk on the Wild Side (1956). The latter was adapted as the 1962 film of the same name (directed by Edward Dmytryk, screenplay by John Fante).

Jean-Paul Sartre ([ʒɑ̃ pol saʁ.tʁ(ə)], pe numele complet Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre; n. 21 iunie 1905, Paris – d. 15 aprilie 1980, Paris) a fost un filozof francez, reprezentant al existențialismului, scriitor, jurnalist și militant social. A influențat profund generația care i-a urmat, în special tineretul din perioada de după cel de-al Doilea Război Mondial, nu doar prin filozofia și opera sa literară, ci mai ales ca intelectual angajat. Diversele sale angajamente sociale sunt inseparabile de gândirea sa filozofică. În anul 1964 i s-a acordat Premiul Nobel pentru Literatură, dar acesta a refuzat.

Claude Lanzmann (French: [lanzman]; 27 November 1925 – 5 July 2018) was a French filmmaker, best known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985), which consists of nine and a half hours of oral testimony from Holocaust survivors, without historical footage. He is also known for his 2017 documentary film Napalm, about a love affair he had with a North Korean nurse whilst visiting North Korea in 1958, several years after the Korean War.

In addition to filmmaking, Lanzmann had also been the chief editor of Les Temps Modernes, a French literary magazine.